Aliens.

Powers retained by people.

ror, or otherwise, shall not be denied. (5 Neb., 458; 6 Neb., 71; 12 Neb., 72.)

SEC. 25. No distinction shall ever be made by law between resident aliens and citizens in reference to the possession, enjoyment, or descent of property. (2 Neb., 9.)

SEC. 26. This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people, and all powers not herein delegated remain with the people.

Division of powers.

Legislative authority.

Consus.

ARTICLE II.-DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.

SECTION 1. The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments: the legislative, executive, and judicial, and no person, or collection of persons, being one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as hereinafter expressly directed or permitted. (6 Neb., 69; 7 Neb., 180; 15 Neb., 681.)

ARTICLE III-LEGISLATIVE.

SECTION 1. The legislative authority is vested in a senate and house of representatives. (7 Neb., 314; 15 Neb., 682.)

SEC. 2. The legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the state in the year eighteen hundred and eightyfive, and every ten years thereafter; and at its first regular session after each enumeration, and also after each enumeration made by the authority of the United States, but at no other time, the legislature shall apportion the sena

tors and representatives according to the number of inhabitants, excluding Indians not taxed, and soldiers and officers of the United States army and navy.

members.

SEC. 3. The house of representatives shall Number of consist of eighty-four members, and the senate shall consist of thirty members, until the year eighteen hundred and eighty, after which time the number of members of each house shall be regulated by law; but the number of representatives shall never exceed one hundred, nor that of senators thirty-three. The sessions of the legislature shall be biennial, except as otherwise provided in this constitution. (See chapter "Apportionment," Comp. Stat. 1885.).

compensation.

SEC. 4. The terms of office of members of the Terms of office; legislature shall be two years, and they shall each receive for their services three dollars for each day's attendance during the session, and ten cents for every mile they shall travel in going to and returning from the place of meeting of the legislature on the most usual route; Proided however, That they shall not receive pay for more than forty days at one session; and neither members of the legislature nor employes shall receive any pay or perquisites other than their pay per diem and mileage. (14 Neb., 440.) SEC. 5. No person shall be eligible to the who not elioffice of senator or member of the house of representatives, who shall not be an elector, and have resided within the district from which he is elected for the term of one year next before his election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States, or

gible.

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Sessions, when held; powers of

of this state. And no person elected as aforesaid shall hold his office after he shall have removed from such district.

SEC. 6. No person holding office under the authority of the United States, or any lucrative office under the authority of this state, shall be eligible to or have a seat in the legislature; but this provision shall not extend to precinct or township officers, justices of the peace, notaries public, or officers of the militia; nor shall any person interested in a contract with, or an unadjusted claim against the state, hold a seat in the legislature.

SEC. 7. The session of the legislature shall each house. commence at twelve o'clock (noon) on the first Tuesday in January, in the year next ensuing the election of members thereof, and at no other time, unless as provided by this constitution. A majority of the members elected to each house shall constitute a quorum. Each house shall determine the rules of its proceedings, and be the judge of the election returns, and qualifications of its members; shall choose its own officers; and the senate shall choose a temporary president to preside when the lieutenantgovernor shall not attend as president, or shall act as governor. The secretary of state shall call the house of representatives to order at the opening of each new legislature, and preside over it until a temporary presiding officer thereof shall have been chosen and shall have taken his seat. No member shall be expelled by either house, except by a vote of twothirds of all the members elected to that house,

and no member shall be twice expelled for the same offense. Each house may punish by imprisonment any person, not a member thereof, who shall be guilty of disrespect to the house, by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence, but no such imprisonment shall extend beyond twenty-four hours at one time, unless the person shall persist in such disorderly or contemptuous behavior.

kept.

SEC. 8. Each house shall keep a journal of Journals to be its proceedings, and publish them (except such parts as may require secrecy), and the yeas and nays of the members on any question shall, at the desire of any two of them, be entered on the journal. All votes in either house shall be viva voce. The doors of each house and of [the] committee of the whole shall be open, unless when the business shall be such as ought to be kept secret. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days. (4 Neb., 505.)

SEC. 9. Any bill may originate in either Bills. house of the legislature, except bills appropriating money, which shall originate only in the house of representatives, and all bills passed by one house may be amended by the other.

Enacting

SEC. 10. The enacting clause of a law shall clause of laws. be, "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Nebraska," and no law shall be enacted except by bill. No bill shall be passed unless by assent of a majority of all the members elected to each house of the legislature. And the question upon the final passage shall be taken immediately upon its last reading, and

Bills to be read

when, Laws,

the yeas and nays shall be entered upon the journal.

SEC. 11. Every bill and concurrent resoluhow amended. tion shall be read at large on three different days in each house, and the bill and all amendments thereto shall be printed before the vote is taken upon its final passage. No bill shall contain more than one subject, and the same shall be clearly expressed in its title. And no law shall be amended unless the new act contains the section or sections so amended, and the section or sections so amended shall be repealed. The presiding officer of each house shall sign, in the presence of the house over which he presides, while the same is in session and capable of transacting business, all bills and concurrent, resolutions passed by the legislature. (1 Neb., 194; 4 Neb., 354, 507; 5 Neb., 276, 310, 515; 6 Neb., 33, 234, 484, 509; 7 Neb., 179, 412; 8 Neb., 38; 9 Neb., 128, 491, 511; 10 Neb., 206, 279, 299, 477; 13 Neb., 9, 14, 122, 254; 14 Neb., 30; 15 Neb., 449, 693.

SEC. 12. Members of the legislature, in all cases except treason, felony or breach of the peace, shall be privileged from arrest during the session of the legislature, and for fifteen days next before the commencement and after the termination thereof.

SEC. 13. No person elected to the legislature shall receive any civil appointment within this state, from the governor and senate during the term for which he has been elected. And all such appointments, and all votes given for any such member for any such office or appointment,